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| Hardboiled and Hard Luck |
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| by Banana Yoshimoto |
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| The author of Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi offers two novellas, one about a young woman's dream about an ex-lover while on a hiking trip, and the other about the sister of a woman lying in a coma. Reprint. |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| Kitchen (A Black cat book) |
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| by Banana Yoshimoto |
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| Two stories, ’Kitchen’ and ’Moonlight Shadow,’ told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young Japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, transsexuality, kitchens, and tragedy. Reprint. NYT. |
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| Publication Date: August 2006 |
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| Goodbye Tsugumi |
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| by Banana Yoshimoto |
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| Maria and Tsugumi are cousins whose relationship has veered between antagonism and affection. Tsugumi is chronically ill as well as bad-tempered, and Maria suffers from the fact that her parents never married. As an adult, Maria looks back... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 2003 |
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| Asleep |
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| by Banana Yoshimoto |
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| A woman sleepwalks after the loss of her lover. Another is in love with a man whose wife is in a coma. And a third is unable to sleep because she is haunted by someone she wronged. These three novellas about sleep in its various aspects are... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2001 |
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| Amrita |
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| by Banana Yoshimoto |
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| After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 1998 |
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| NP |
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| by Banana Yoshimoto |
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| In the wake of a celebrated Japanese author's suicide, the publication of his final collection of stories, written in English, becomes thwarted when its translators also decide to kill themselves after reading it. Reprint. |
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| Publication Date: March 1995 |
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